First public YEAH workshop

Our first public workshop for the Young Explorers of Ashgrove History on Sat 13th October went well.

We kicked off with Uncle Nurdon Serico talking about Turrbal people in Kallindarbin. Here's the link http://youngexplorersashgrovehistory.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/turrbal-people-in-ashgrove-area.html

This took a little longer then we were anticipating because of the children's interest in fishing and swimming holes and sedimentation.

Our other major activity was the  Great Ashgrove Memorabilia Mixup. One of the girls did a great job reading the accompanying disaster story:


"Oh No! Strawberry the house cow got into the vegie garden again."  "And, when Mum and the kids ran out to chase it back into the paddock, the dog ran inside and knocked all of the Ashgrove history photos and memorabilia onto the floor."  "They're in a terrible mess. Better work out which photos go with objects before Mum gets back."

"Can you help me please?"

"Here's the photos. Can you work out which history memorabilia objects go with which photo?"


and the guessing began. 

Finding photo on iPad

Daryll telling a story

Selecting artefacts

 Once we successfully matched photos and objects and talked about them. The young explorers got to draw one of the objects.

Liam drawing horse to accompany blacksmiths pincers

Drawing the butter churn and the fret saw

 The Great Memorabilia Mixup activity was so successful, we kept it in all of our workshops. Children have been fascinated with some of the objects such as the string of newspaper toilet paper squares, the butter churn, the pre-decimal currency coins, tools in general and the buggy wheel.